Europe in crisis over migrants: Now Dutch right-wingers give women pepper spray laced with red paint to protect themselves from 'Islamic testosterone bombs'
- Geert Wilders handed out the pepper spray to supporters in Spijkenisse
- He vowed to close the borders to all asylum seekers immediately if elected
- Wilders' Freedom Party is currently top of the opinion polls in Holland
- Political scientists said right wingers are benefiting from the refugee crisis
- See more news on the migrant crisis at www.dailymail.co.uk/migrantcrisis
He said if he was elected Prime Minister next year, he would 'close the borders immediately and have no more asylum seekers'.
He said: 'We just cannot afford to have more. The Dutch people in a big majority don't want it and we cannot afford it and it makes our people and women only more unsafe.'
Wilders' party currently holds 12 seats in the 150-member lower house, but a poll by Ipsos on Thursday suggested the Freedom Party would win 32 seats now.
The Prime Minister Mark Rutte's Liberals were second with 26 seats, down from its current tally of 40. The online survey of 1,061 voters had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.5 percent. Other polls have Wilders even further ahead.
Dutch authorities prosecuted Wilders in 2011 on hate speech charges after comparing Islam to fascism and demanding a ban on the Koran. He was acquitted at the time, but he is still facing further charges over his highly controversial comments.
Wilders extreme views are being replicated in other European nations, with Marine Le Pen's National Front in France also receiving a surge in popularity.
Leontine Maris was one of the first women to get a spray from Wilders on Saturday.
The 53-year-old said she votes for him though she disagrees with some of his more extreme comments. She said she was afraid not just of migrants, but also Dutch men.
She said: 'The whole society is going down the drain.'
University of Amsterdam political science professor Wouter van der Brug: 'The tendencies across Europe are very similar. Across Europe, right-wing populist parties are picking up support as a result of the asylum crisis that we're facing now, and also as a result of terrorist attacks.
'Wilders is getting support across different layers of society.'
However, Wilders' opponents are confident the controversial politician's support will collapse when the Dutch people cast their ballots next year.
Lodewijk Asscher, Deputy Prime Minister and a Labor Party member said: 'It is hard to talk about a tipping point because we have seen this phenomenon in the polls before. Geert Wilders has lost the last three elections. That is something we tend to forget.'
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